Paul Simons

Salps are fascinating sea creatures — transparent, jelly-like, barrel-shaped zooplankton that can move around by squirting water in jet-propelled motion. Even t

Wind and solar energy can generate cheap electricity, but a big bugbear is what happens when the wind does not blow and the sun is not shining. Power grids running on renewable energy need huge amounts of power storage to avoid power cuts, so one solution is batteries. The usual lithium-ion battery,

There is a plant so good at locking away carbon that it helps to lessen climate change. It can also be used for making many renewable products, does not need pe

July so far has been a big letdown. Temperatures hovering around average — with it rainy over much of the UK — and the sun has largely gone missing under grey

Rishi Sunak has pledged not to impose “unacceptable costs” on households in the drive to hit the government’s net zero target for greenhouse gas emissions by 20

Strange Stone Age tombs lie across the north of the Dutch landscape, the oldest monuments in the Netherlands. These were originally tombstones that formed low-r

Some places in England almost sounded like the Mediterranean this summer and early autumn, with a chorus of rasping and chirping from grasshoppers and crickets

’The rain was getting heavier ... The window flew open, and the blinds were sucked out of the window ... It lasted around 10-20 seconds,” recounted a witness af

Plus: the weather forecast where you are

Plus: the weather forecast where you are